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Procedia CIRP 63 (2017) 610 – 614

The 50th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems

Optimization of Machining Parameters in Turning of AISI 4340 Steel under

Cryogenic Condition Using Taguchi Technique
Sanchit Kumar Kharea*, Sanjay Agarwalb
a
Department of Mechanical Engineering,Institute of Technology and Management,Gida,Gorakhpur 273209,India
b
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology,Jhansi 284128,India
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-551-224-2154; .E-mail address:sanchitkhare@yahoo.com

Abstract

This experimental research on cryogenic turning process involves the modelling and optimization of the process parameters affecting the
machining performance and value oriented sustainable manufacturing. In the present work, the machining parameters namely the cutting speed,
feed rate, depth of cut and rake angle are optimized for minimum surface roughness on AISI 4340 steel. The experimentation was planned
XVLQJ7DJXFKL¶V/WKHRU\ An orthogonal array (L9), the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio, and the Qualitek-4 were employed to the study the surface
roughness in the turning of AISI 4340 steel under cryogenic condition. It was observed that cutting speed and depth of cut was the most
influential factors on the surface roughness. To validate the study, confirmation experiment has been carried out at optimum set of parameters
and predicted results have been found to be in good agreement with experimental findings. The results have revealed that cryogenic machining
has yielded better surface finish.

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Keywords: Cryogenic Turning; Surface roughness; Taguchi method

1. Introduction removal rates. Tool wear was also observed to be uniform

Traditionally and historically, manufacturing processes are
planned and developed in order to achieve either
maximum productivity or minimum cost. In contrast,
present trends push manufacturers to develop new
methodologies incorporating sustainability concepts [1].
Surface integrity of machined components has a major
impact on their functional performance [ 2]. Sustainable
manufacturing processes are those which demonstrate
improved environmental impact and energy and resource
efficiency, generate minimum quantity of wastes, provide
operational safety and personal health, while maintaining
or improving the product quality [3]. Cryogenic machining
imparts several improvements that can be categorized as:
(1)Environmentally friendly and safe: Nitrogen is a non
hazardous gas that constitutes 79% of atmospheric air.
(2) High productivity: both the hardness and toughness of
the cutting tool materials have been shown to increase
under cryogenic cooling, allowing increased material
and predictable.
(3) Enhanced surface quality: cryogenically machined
metal and hardened steel parts showed reduced surface and
subsurface damage, and improved fatigue resistance.
Compressive residual stresses and white layer
characteristics have also been shown to improve with
cryogenic cooling.
(4) Step reduction and process change: cryogenic cooling
results in more economical machining in the fully heat-
treated condition for most parts, allowing intermediate
heat-treating steps to be eliminated.
In setting the machining parameters, the main goal is the
minimum surface roughness. The setting of machining
parameters relies strongly on the experience of operators
and machining parameters tables provided by machine tool
builders. It is difficult to utilize the optimal functions of a
machine owing to their being too many adjustable
machining parameters.

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2. Literature Review
Paul et al [4] investigated the effects of cryogenic cooling
in machining of AISI 1060 steel with carbide inserts and
compared the effectiveness of cryogenic cooling with that
of dry machining and conventional cutting fluids.
Experimental results indicate that cryogenic cooling
provided reduced tool wear and improved surface finish,
compared to dry and wet operations.
Zhou et al. (1995) [5] investigated on tool life criteria in
cryogenic turning. A new tool-life criterion depending on a
pattern-recognition technique was proposed and neural
network and wavelet techniques were used to realize the
new criterion. The experimental results showed that this
criterion was applicable to tool condition monitoring in a
wide range of cutting conditions.
Lin et al. (2001) [6] adopted an abdicative network to
construct a prediction model for surface roughness and
MRR. Once the process parameters: cutting speed, feed
rate and depth of cut were given; the surface roughness
and MRR could be predicted by this network. Regression
analysis was also adopted as second prediction model for
surface roughness and MRR.
Feng and Wang (2002) [7] investigated for the prediction
of surface roughness in finish cryogenic turning operation
by developing an empirical model through considering
working parameters: work piece hardness (material), feed,
cutting tool point angle, depth of cut, spindle speed, and
cutting time. Data mining techniques, nonlinear regression
analysis with logarithmic data transformation were
employed for developing the empirical model to predict
the surface roughness.
Suresh et al. (2002) [8]focused on machining mild steel by
TiN-coated tungsten carbide(CNMG) cutting tools for
developing a surface roughness prediction model by using
Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Genetic
Algorithms (GA) used to optimize the objective function
and compared with RSM results. It was observed that GA
program provided minimum and maximum values of
surface roughness and their respective optimal machining
conditions.
Lee and Chen (2003) [9] highlighted on artificial neural
networks (OSRR-ANN) using a sensing technique to
monitor the effect of vibration produced by the motions of
the cutting tool and work piece during the cutting process
developed an on-line surface recognition system. The
authors employed tri-axial accelerometer for determining
the direction of vibration that significantly affected surface
roughness then analyzed by using a statistical method and
compared prediction accuracy of both the ANN and SMR.
Choudhury and Bartarya (2003) [10] focused on design of
experiments and the neural network for prediction of tool
wear. The input parameters were cutting speed, feed and
depth of cut; flank wear, surface finish and cutting zone
temperature were selected as outputs. Empirical relation
between different responses and input variables and also
through neural network (NN) program helped in
predictions for all the three response variables and
compared which method was best for the prediction.
Kirby et al. (2004) [11] developed the prediction model for
surface roughness in turning operation. The regression
model was developed by a single cutting parameter and
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vibrations along three axes were chosen for in-process
surface roughness prediction system. By using multiple
regression and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) a strong
linear relationship among the parameters (feed rate and
vibration measured in three axes) and the response (surface
roughness) was found. The authors demonstrated that
spindle speed and depth of cut might not necessarily have
to be fixed for an effective surface roughness prediction
model.
Ramakrishnan and Karunamoorthy [12] developed an
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) by using Inconel 718 as
work material to predict the performance characteristics
namely MRR and surface
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response by optimized concurrently using multi-response
signal-to-noise (MRSN) ratio in DGGLWLRQ WR 7DJXFKL¶V
parametric design approach. ANOVA was employed to
identify the level of importance of the machining
parameters on the multi-performance characteristics.
From the literature, it is observed that researchers have
already worked in the area of cryogenic turning
technology.
In recent years, along with other types of steels, AISI
4340 steel has also emerged as an important material for
industrial applications. Despite extensive research on
cryogenic turning process, determining the desirable
operating conditions during cryogenic turning of AISI
4340 steel, in industrial setting, still relies on the skill of
the operators and trial-and-error methods. So the aim of
the present work is to obtain the optimum machining
conditions for cryogenic turning of AISI 4340 steel, for
minimizing the surface roughness based on Taguchi
technique. Experiments were carried out to study the
effect of various parameters viz. speed, feed, depth of
cut and rake angle on the surface finish. The levels of
significance on the surface roughness were statistically
evaluated by using Qualitek-4.
3. Experiment
The experimental studies were performed on a High-
power rigid lathe machine tool. The composition of AISI
4340 steel work-piece material used for experimentation
in this work is a given in table 1. HSS T-42, S-400 (CT)
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experiments. The parameters, selected for different
settings of speed, feed, depth of cut and rake angle were
used in the experiments (Table 2). The photographic
view of the machining zone has been shown in fig.1 (a).
The other details of the experimentation have been
shown in Table 3. The surface roughness was measured
by with Stylus-type profilometer, Talysurf (Taylor
Hobson, Surtronic 3+) on the work-piece after machining.
Stylus-type profilometer has been shown in fig.1 (b).
Table-1 Chemical composition of AISI D3 steel (wt %)
AISI C-0.382, S-0.022, P-0.026, Si-0.228, Mn-0.609,
4340
Cr-0.995, Ni-1.514, Mo- 0.226, Fe-95.998
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Table-2 Machining settings used in the experiments purpose of designing and improving the product quality
[13,14]. In the Taguchi method, process parameters which
Process variables influence the products are separated into two main groups:
Values Cutting Speed Feed Depth of Rake control factors and noise factors. The control factors are
in (N) Rate(f) cut(d) (mm) angle used to select the best conditions for stability in design or
coded (rpm) (mm/rev) (Į manufacturing process, whereas the noise factors denote
form
all factors that cause variation.
L1 50 0.045 0.2 4 According to Taguchi based methodology, the
L2 150 0.090 0.4 8 characteristic that the smaller value indicates the better
L3 250 0.135 0.6 12 machining performance, such as Surface roughness is
addressed as the-smaller-the-better type of problem. The
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Table-3 Fixed parameters Smaller-the-better
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Work piece AISI 4340 steel rod

Coolant Liquid nitrogen 4. Results and Discussion

The experimental results are collected for surface
roughness and 9 experiments were conducted using
(a)
Taguchi (L9) experimental design methodology and
there are two replicates for each experiment to obtain
S/N values. In the present study all the designs, plots
and analysis have been carried out using Minitab
statistical software. Lower amount of surface roughness
show the high productivity of cryogenic turning.
Therefore, small the better are applied to calculate the
S/N ratio of surface roughness respectively.
Regardless of category of the performance
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performance. Therefore, optimal level with the greatest
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experiment of L9 (table 3) was calculated in Table 5.
(b)
The optimal machining performance for SR was
obtained as 50 rpm cutting speed (Level 1), 0.045
mm/rev feed rate(Level 1), 0.2 mm depth of cut (Level
1) and 40rake angle (Level 1) settings that give the
minimum SR. Fig. 2 shows the effect of machining
parameters on the SR.

Table-4 Experimental design using L9 orthogonal array

Exp Factor Assignment Ra S/N Ratio

No (μm) (db)
N F d Į

1 50 0.045 0.2 4 0.97 0.2646

2 50 0.090 0.4 8 3.95 -11.9319

3 50 0.135 0.6 12 5.66 -15.0563

Fig 1 (a) Machining zone (b) Stylus-type profilometer
4 150 0.045 0.4 12 7.02 -16.9267

5 150 0.090 0.6 4 7.08 -17.0007

3.1 Design of experiment based on Taguchi method
6 150 0.135 0.2 8 6.42 -16.1507

To evaluate the effects of cutting parameters of cryogenic 7 250 0.045 0.6 8 5.66 -15.0563

turning process in terms of cutting performance 8 250 0.090 0.2 12 2.40 -7.6042
characteristics such as Surface Roughness a Taguchi 250 0.135 0.4 4 3.66 -11.2696
9
method used here to model the cryogenic turning process.
In this study, Taguchi method, a powerful tool for
parameter design of performance characteristics, for the
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Table5. Response Table for S/N ratio
Fig.2. Factor effects on S/N ratio for SR
The relative importance of the machining parameters with
respect to the SR was investigated to determine more
accurately the optimum combinations of the machining
parameters by using Qualitek-4. The results of Qualitek-4
for the machining outputs are presented in Tables 5 and 6.
Statistically, F-test provides a decision at some confidence
level as to whether these estimates
are significantly different. Larger F-value indicates that the
variation of the process parameter makes a big change on
the performance characteristics. F-values of the machining
parameters are compared with the appropriate confidence
Table.
Table 6. Result of Qualitek-4 for SR
At least 95% confidence
Table 7. Pooled of Qualitek-4 for SR
At least 95% confidence
According to F-test analysis, the significant parameters on
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the SR are speed and depth of cut. The percent
contributions of the machining parameters on the SR are
shown in Table 7. Speed is found to be the major factor
affecting the SR (50.847%). The percent contribution of
depth of cut and rake angle on the SR are 30.915%,
6.415% respectively.
6.415%
50.84%
30.915%
Fig. 3. Percent Contribution of Control factors for SR
4.1 Confirmation experiment
The confirmation experiment is performed by conducting a
test using a specific combination of the factors and levels
previously evaluated. The sample size of confirmation
experiment is larger than the sample size of any specific
trial in the previous factorial experiment. The final step of
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parameters is to be predict any verify
the improvement of the performance characteristics with
the selected optimal machining parameters [15]. The
predicted S/N ratio using the optimal levels of the
machining parameters can be calculated with the help of
following prediction equation:
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PHDQ RI WKH 61 UDWLRV Șj is the mean S/N ratio of at
optimal levels and k is the number of main design
parameters that affect the quality characteristics. The
results of experimental confirmation using optimal
machining parameters are shown in Tables 8. From the
above observations, it can be interpreted that the obtained
Table-8 Confirmation experiment result for SR
Optimum machining parameters
Predicted Experiment
Level N1f1d1 Į1 N1f1d1 Į1
S/N ratio for -24.02 -25.3
SR (db)
SR has reasonable accuracy for resulting model because an
error of 5.32% for S/N ratio of SR is measured.
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5. Conclusion algorithmic approach for optimization of surface roughness prediction

This paper described the optimization of the cryogenic
turning process using parametric design of Taguchi
methodology.
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parameter design is a simple, systematic, reliable, and
more efficient tool for optimization of the machining
parameters. The effect of various machining parameter
such as cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and rake
angle has been studied though machining of AISI 4340
steel.
1. It was identified that the cutting speed and depth
of cut have influenced more than the other
parameters considered in this study.
2. The confirmation experiment has been conducted.
Result shows that the error associated with SR is
only 5.32 %.
The selection of optimum values is essential for the
process manufacturing system. Thus the optimized
condition, not only makes the cryogenic turning a more
commercially viable process for industrial applications, but
also turns a spotlight on cryogenic turning process as a
promising field for further advancements.
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Acknowledgement

I express my sincere thanks to Associate Professor Dr

Sanjay Agarwal, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
BIET, Jhansi for providing me the necessary facilities in
the department. I sincerely appreciate my advisor for
giving me the opportunity to explore this topic. I have
learned and improved a lot with your encouragement,
insightful advices, and guidance in last three years. Your
suggestions, effort, time, and energy help me develop the
ideas that made the research a success.

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